Leave Sydney. 
Gale and Current. 
Port Stephens. 
Tahlee. 
River Karuah. 
Stroud. 
Wild Cattle. 
Incivility of a Settler. 
River Allyn. 
Mr. Boydell. 
Cultivation of Tobacco. 
A clearing Lease. 
William River. 
Crossing the Karuah at Night. 
Sail from Port Stephens. 
Breaksea Spit. 
Discover a Bank. 
Cape Capricorn. 
Northumberland Isles. 
Sandalwood. 
Cape Upstart. 
Discover a River. 
Raised Beach. 
Section of Barrier Reef. 
Natives. 
Plants and Animals. 
Magnetical Island. 
Halifax Bay. 
Height of Cordillera. 
Fitzroy Island. 
Hope Island. 
Verifying Captain King’s Original Chart. 
Cape Bedford. 
New Geological Feature. 
Lizard Island. 
Captain Cook. 
Barrier and Reefs within. 
Howick Group. 
Noble Island. 
Cape Melville. 
Reef near Cape Flinders. 
Princess Charlotte’s Bay. 
Section of a detached Reef. 
Tide at Claremont Isles. 
Restoration Island. 
Islands fronting Cape Grenville. 
Boydan Island. 
Correct Chart. 
Tides. 
Cairncross Island. 
Escape River. 
Correct position of Reefs. 
York Isles. 
Tides. 
Torres Strait. 
Endeavour Strait. 
Booby Island. 
Remarks on Barrier and its contiguous Islands and Reefs. 
Cape Croker and reef off it. 
Discover error in longitude of Cape. 
Reefs at the mouth of Port Essington. 
Arrive at the latter.

May 22.

We again bade adieu to our friends at Sydney, and sailed to explore the north-western part of the continent, which from the number of openings still unexamined, possessed the interest that invariably attaches to whatever is unknown.  We submitted, accordingly, with impatience to the delay caused by light north-westerly winds, and a southerly current of nearly a knot per hour, which prevented us from reaching the parallel of Port Macquarie before the 29th; when about forty miles from it we experienced a gale,* from North-East and East-North-East, that lasted till the evening of the next day, when we found ourselves about 140 miles South-East of Port Stephens.  During this gale the southerly current increased its velocity to two miles an hour, and its strength appeared to be about seventy miles from the land.  This delay rendered it necessary to obtain a fresh chronometric departure, and as the winds prevented our returning to Port Jackson, we proceeded to Port Stephens, where we anchored, June 5th.  We found the Admiralty chart of the coast in the neighbourhood very defective, some islands being completely omitted, whilst others were much misplaced.

(Footnote.  This gale was from South-East at Sydney, and the most severe they had experienced for many years; it blew many vessels adrift and did other damage.)

REMARKABLE HEADLANDS.  PORT STEPHENS.